Posted on Advocate.com February 05, 2011
Marriage Equality Ads to Hit Australia
By Advocate.com Editors
Marriage equality advocates plan to launch television ads on Valentine’s
Day that will run throughout the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
celebration, which ends in March.
The campaign is sponsored by the groups GetUp! and Australian Marriage
Equality, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, which talked to AME
spokesperson Alex Greenwich.
“The television campaign, ‘Marriage Matters,' which ... 阅读全帖
UN Council: Gay Rights are Human Rights
By Andrew Harmon
UNITED NATIONS BUILDING NEW YORK X390 (FAIR) | ADVOCATE.COM
The United Nations' Human Rights Council has approved for the first time a
resolution condemning discrimination and violence against LGBT individuals.
In the resolution, passed Friday in Geneva, the council “[expresses] grave
concern at acts of violence and discrimination, in all regions of the world,
committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation and
gender ide... 阅读全帖
Posted on Advocate.com December 06, 2011 07:38:56 PM ET
8 Must-Read Moments of Hillary Clinton's Speech
By Lucas Grindley and Michelle Garcia
HILLARY CLINTON 20111206 GENEVA X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Tuesday's landmark speech from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined
the United States' stance on an "invisible minority" in many countries, as
she put it — LGBT and gender-varyiant people. The full speech is available
here, but if you're in a hurry, here are eight key points made during her... 阅读全帖
Posted on Advocate.com December 06, 2011 07:34:31 PM ET
Perry, Santorum Denounce Call for Global Gay Rights
By Trudy Ring
RICK PERRY SANTORUM X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Perry, Santorum
To Republican presidential aspirant Rick Perry, using U.S. foreign aid to
prevent persecution and even execution of LGBT people amounts to “promoting
special rights for gays.” To Rick Santorum, another member of the GOP
field, it’s promoting an agenda.
Perry issued a statement on his campaign website denouncing t... 阅读全帖
The top USA LGBT stories of 2011 http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/26/the-top-usa-lgbt-stories-o
10 – High profile figures come out as gay
In October, the Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto came out as gay. On his blog,
Quinto wrote that the recent suicide of gay 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer had
spurred him to be open.
Don Lemon, the CNN anchorman who appears in 100 million US homes also came
out at the age of 45, and spoke to PinkNews.co.uk’s Laurence Watts about
the experience. Lemon’s biography wa... 阅读全帖
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2005), directed by John
Scagliotti and produced by Dan Hunt and Janet Baus, is the first documentary
to deeply explore the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-western
cultures. Traveling to five different continents, we hear the heartbreaking
and triumphant stories of gays and lesbians from Egypt, Honduras, Kenya,
Thailand and elsewhere, where most occurrences of oppression receive no
media coverage at all.
Dangerous Living is the winner o... 阅读全帖
联合国秘书长潘基文3月7日通过录像向联合国人权理事会的性倾向和性别身份人权会议
发表开幕讲话说：“我要对同性恋者、双性恋者和跨性别者们说，你们并不孤单，我们
与你们共同为结束暴力和歧视而抗争，任何对你们的攻击就是对我承诺要维护的联合国
普世价值的攻击”。 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sgsm14145.doc.htm
To Those Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender, Secretary-General
Says
in Message: You Are Not Alone in Your Struggle to End Violence,
Discrimination
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Human
Rights Council meeting on violence and discrimination based on sexual
orientation ... 阅读全帖
【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: gogo2004 (挑灯看剑), 信区: History
标 题: Evolution of Chinese intellectuals' thought over two decades
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 15 17:38:31 2012, 美东)
Working at a top political think tank of the government, the author of the
patriotic Chinese tome Paradoxes of American Hegemony today delights in
contrasting Western economic failures with the successes of China’s chosen
economic path.
Back in the 1980s Ding Yifan had idealistically believed in Western models
as offering solut... 阅读全帖
【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: gogo2004 (挑灯看剑), 信区: History
标 题: Evolution of Chinese intellectuals' thought over two decades
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 15 17:38:31 2012, 美东)
Working at a top political think tank of the government, the author of the
patriotic Chinese tome Paradoxes of American Hegemony today delights in
contrasting Western economic failures with the successes of China’s chosen
economic path.
Back in the 1980s Ding Yifan had idealistically believed in Western models
as offering solut... 阅读全帖
Here's the top 20 most expensive places on the planet to rent an office:
1. Hong Kong (Central)
2. London's West End
3. Tokyo
4. Beijing (Jianguomen Business District)
5. Moscow
6. Beijing (Finance Street)
7. Hong Kong (Kowloon)
8. Sao Paulo, Brazil
9. New Delhi, India (Connaught Place)
10. London Central (City)
11. Shanghai (Puxi district)
12. Rio de Janeiro
13. Mumbai (Bandra Kurla Complex)
14. Paris Ile-de-France, France
15. Sydney, Australia
16. Singapore
17. Shanghai (Pudong)
18. New York (... 阅读全帖
共和党主导的美国众议院将对联合国状况召开听证会，结果将影响对联合国的拨款
Republican-Controlled Congressional Committee Targets United Nations
Monday, January 24, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, pictured during a briefing on Iran with former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations John Bolton, on March 25, 2010. (Photo: Foreign Affairs
Committee Republicans)
(Editor’s note: Adds dollar figures for 2011 contributions to the U.N. in
paragraph 13.)
(CNSNews... 阅读全帖
http://www.france24.com/en/20110222-france-24-muammar-gaddafi-f
Muhammad Gaddafi: Muammar’s oldest son, Muhammad is the head of Libya’s
Olympic committee and the General Post and Telecom Company, which owns and
operates cell phone and satellite communications across the country.
Saïf al-Islam Gaddafi: Muammar’s second son, the 38-year-old is seen
as the poster child for a more modern and moderate Libya. He left the
country in 2006 after speaking out against his father’s regime, but came
ba... 阅读全帖
An African city tops the list of the world’s most expensive places to live,
while no U.S. city even makes the top five of Mercer’s Worldwide Cost of
Living Survey for 2011.
Two African cities — Luanda in Angola and N’Djamena in Chad — ranked No.
1 and No. 3, respectively. Tokyo was No. 2, with Moscow at fourth and Geneva
at fifth.
New York City is America’s most expensive metropolis, but just the 32nd
most expensive city in the world.
Emerging economies continue to make a stronger showing in the... 阅读全帖
December 12, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
TIME has one of those lists that we always start to see as the year comes to
a close. This one is the top ten best and worst places in the world to live
. Sadly, there isn’t a single place in the U.S.A. on that list.
The worst place to live on this list is, unsurprisingly, the disaster-prone
(both man-made and natural-made) country of Haiti. Neither Yemen nor Iraq
fare much better than Haiti. The rest of the top ten worst list is filled
out with African ... 阅读全帖
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18773158
A gunman has opened fire in a village in Switzerland, killing three people
and wounding two others, Swiss media reports say.
The attack late on Wednesday happened in the southern village of Daillon in
Valais canton, around 100km (60 miles) east of Geneva.
Several people were reportedly lying in the street after shots were fired.
Swiss broadcaster RTS said police later arrested a suspect who was shot and
wounded after he had threatened them.
"Three ... 阅读全帖
Seized Chinese Weapons Raise Concerns on Iran
By ROBERT F. WORTH and C. J. CHIVERS
An Iranian dhow seized off the Yemeni coast was carrying sophisticated
Chinese antiaircraft missiles, a development that could signal an escalation
of Iran’s support to its Middle Eastern proxies, alarming other countries
in the region and renewing a diplomatic challenge to the United States.
Among the items aboard the dhow, according to a review of factory markings
on weapons and their packing crates, were 10 Chi... 阅读全帖
Vive La France on Iran
The French save the West from a very bad nuclear deal with Iran.
Updated Nov. 10, 2013 5:23 p.m. ET
We never thought we'd say this, but thank heaven for French foreign-policy
exceptionalism. At least for the time being, François Hollande's
Socialist government has saved the West from a deal that would all but
guarantee that Iran becomes a nuclear power.
While the negotiating details still aren't fully known, the French made
clear Saturday that they objected to a nucle... 阅读全帖
Re. IU has a lot of cute girls.
Check out this ranking of college girls. IU's rating is A. Impressive!
美国大学美女排行榜，供单身飞友参考，呵呵
真正学生选出来的排名 在美国是有11万学生选出来的
A+ Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
A+ University of Central Florida Orlando, FL
A+ University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
A+ University of Texas Austin, TX
A+ Pepperdine University Malibu, CA
A+ Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA
A+ Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA
A+ University of Georgia Athens, GA
A+ Vanderbilt U... 阅读全帖
Denmark Aims to Rehabilitate, Not Punish, Returning Jihadists
October 21, 2014 - 4:10 PM
By Joseph Perticone
(CNSNews.com) - Instead of arresting jihadists returning from fighting for
the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, Danish authorities are offering them free
psychological treatment, job placement, and education.
Although Denmark has joined the U.S.-led coalition and sent seven F-16
fighter jets to run airstrikes against IS, more of its young people leave to
fight in Syria per capita than nearly... 阅读全帖
What country deserves more condemnation for violating human rights than any
other nation on earth? According to the U.N.’s top human rights body, that
would be Israel.
Last week, Israel was the U.N.’s number one women’s rights violator. This
week it is the U.N.’s all-round human rights villain.
The U.N. Human Rights Council wrapped up its latest session in Geneva on
Friday, March 27 by adopting four resolutions condemning Israel. That’s
four times more than any of the other 192 UN member states... 阅读全帖
Cheney: If You Wanted a President 'To Take America Down … It Would Look
Exactly Like What Barack Obama’s Doing'
'The Worst President We've Ever Had'
9:13 AM, Apr 8, 2015 • By DANIEL HALPER
Vice President Dick Cheney had harsh criticism for President Barack Obama in
an interview last night with radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Hewitt asked the former vice president, "Is he naïve, Mr. Vice
President? Or does he have a far-reaching vision that only he entertains of
a realigned Middle East that so... 阅读全帖
Troops favor Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the next
commander in chief, according to a new survey by Military Times.
Trump took first place, with 27 percent of troops surveyed in a poll of 931
active-duty troops, reservists and members of the National Guard.
Sanders came in a close second at 22 percent, according to the poll
published Tuesday. Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton
received a little more than 11 percent support.
The results, while unscientific, off... 阅读全帖
Muslim Boys Required to Shake Hands With Female Teacher, Swiss School Board
Rules. The could face up to a $5,000 fine if they refuse
(GENEVA)— A school board in northern Switzerland said Wednesday that two
Muslim boys who have refused to shake hands with their female teachers for
religious reasons can be required to do so, ruling that their parents could
face fines of up to 5,000 Swiss francs (about $5,000) if they don’t.
A public school in the northeastern Therwil municipality had sought the
re... 阅读全帖
Monday:
First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders and DREAMer Astrid Silva
Tuesday:
President Bill Clinton
Also scheduled Tuesday are Mothers of the Movement members Gwen Carr, Mother
of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin; Maria Hamilton,
Mother of Dontré Hamilton; Lucia McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis; Lezley
McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown; Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, Mother of
Hadiya Pendleton; Geneva Reed-Veal, Mother of Sandra Bland.
Wednesday:
President Barack ... 阅读全帖
一堆娃挂了的妈：
Also scheduled Tuesday are Mothers of the Movement members
Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner;
Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin;
Maria Hamilton, Mother of Dontré Hamilton;
Lucia McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis;
Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown;
Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, Mother of Hadiya Pendleton;
Geneva Reed-Veal, Mother of Sandra Bland. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-schedule-of-events-and-speakers-225617#ixzz4F6ryA8ai
DNC 2016 schedule of events and speakers
Here's a preliminary schedule of headlining speakers slated to address the
2016 Democratic convention.
By POLITICO STAFF 07/15/16 01:20 PM EDT
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Here's a schedule of headlining speakers slated to address the 2016
Democratic convention in Philadelphia July 25 to July 28, according to the
Democratic National Convention Committee.
Monday:
First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders and DREAMer Astrid Silva
Gavel time ex... 阅读全帖
A Dallas meteorogist has resigned after writing a racially insensitive
Facebook post bashing the Democratic National Convention.
Bob Goosmann was a weatherman at KRLD when he posted about the DNC speeches
by the so-called "Mothers of the Movement," such as Eric Garner's mother, on
Wednesday.
"As many of you have probably noticed, I've stayed away from politics on FB.
The DNC parading the mothers of slain thugs around on their stage has me
furious," read the post, which has since disappeared.
The... 阅读全帖
"被伊朗敲诈"也是个扯谎，已经在Twitter上认怂了。
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From非左逼媒体WSJ
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday reversed himself
and said there was no “top secret” video that showed the U.S. giving $400
million in cash to Iranians, after spending two days claiming to have seen
the footage and mocking the the Obama administration about it.
At 5:39 a.m. EST, Mr. Trump tweeted: “The plane I saw on television was the
hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million
in cash going to I... 阅读全帖
Hostage Tells Attorney Iran is Demanding $4 Million Ransom
Justin Holcomb
Posted: Oct 25, 2016 2:30 PM
A permanent U.S. resident who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a
year has told his representing attorney that the Iranian government is
demanding a ransom in exchange for his release, according to the Washington
Examiner.
Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen and permanent resident of the United States,
said Iranian officials told him in April it would take as much as $2
billion for his rele... 阅读全帖
Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript
By THE NEW YORK TIMESNOV. 23, 2016
President-elect Donald J. Trump during a meeting at The New York Times’s
offices in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Following is a transcript of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s interview on
Tuesday with reporters, editors and opinion columnists from The New York
Times. The transcription was prepared by Liam Stack, Jonah Engel Bromwich,
Karen Workman and Tim Herrera of The Times.
ARTHUR SULZBERGER Jr., publisher o... 阅读全帖
